shooter sowar
English
Etymology
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Noun
shooter sowar (plural shooter sowars)
- (India, obsolete) The rider of a dromedary or swift camel, attached to the establishment of the viceroy on the march, and of other high officials in Upper India.
References
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “shooter sowar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].